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"Eye of the Beholder" demonstrates that beauty may be only skin-deep.

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it becomes clear that he's not scary at all but a big, burly sweetie pie who was born without any metal in his face and is doing his best to rectify that fact.
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For a program that bills itself as a global, cross-cultural interrogation into the meaning of beauty, Eye of the Beholder's strengths are visual, not intellectual.
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It's what's on the inside that matters. When Musafar says "a beautiful person just radiates something that a not-beautiful person doesn't radiate," you want to ask: So, why the nose thing?




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Tune in to tonight's debut of "Eye of the Beholder" (Travel Channel, Mondays, March 1, 8, and 15, 9 p.m. ET)—a three-part survey of the world of body modification, tattooing, and bodybuilding—if only to get a load of "piercing artist" Bear Belmares, who has stretched his earlobes so far that they brush against his shoulders. A metal hoop keeps the flesh nice and taut, making each lobe so swollen they almost seem pornographic. Belmares also has extensive tribal tattooing on his face, too many eyebrow studs to count, and a "lip plug," which is essentially a stake driven through his bottom lip. Sadly, we don't get to see Belmares out in public—he is filmed at a convention against a black backdrop—but host Serena Yang does her best to put him in social context. "What would you say is [people's] biggest misconception about you?" she asks. "That I'll eat them," he replies.

But Belmares is no cannibal. In fact, as he talks, it becomes clear that he's not scary at all but a big, burly sweetie pie who was born without any metal in his face and is doing his best to rectify that fact. According to Belmares, he thought these additions would make him look better, but why exactly remains fuzzy. In fact, as outré as all this skin puncturing, flesh searing, and organ cinching is, many of the subjects in tonight's episode of "Eye of the Beholder" come across as pretty ordinary. With the youthful, earnest Yang as our guide, we travel to London, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Sydney and hang out with perfectly pleasant people as they run needles through their nipples, bind themselves until their waists are only as big around as a jar of spaghetti sauce, and have elaborate patterns burned into their skin with a surgical cauterizing tool. The show's deadpan tone reminded me of HBO's Real Sex, which makes underwater pornography, oral-sex classes, and Guinness Book of Records gangbangs seem like a day running errands. Drive a stake through your head if you want; "Eye of the Beholder" makes you seem like just folks.
  
As a primer on the mechanics of body modification, Eye of the Beholder satisfies, but when it comes offering any aesthetic insight—Is it beautiful? Is it art?—the show falls short. For a program that bills itself as a global, cross-cultural interrogation into the meaning of beauty, Eye of the Beholder's strengths are visual, not intellectual. Yang takes us to a piercing convention, a corset party, a branding salon, and a body modification intensive led by guru and "modern primitive" Fakir Musafar. The footage is evocative, but the show's ultimate message is banal and familiar: It's what's on the inside that matters. When Musafar says "a beautiful person just radiates something that a not-beautiful person doesn't radiate," you want to ask: So, why the nose thing?